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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



"HE TOOK A FEW AT A TIME: HE RAN UP INTO THE WOODS WITH HIS AUTOMOBILE. 



is especially fond of the trees, he knows 

 the plants, and with his young daugh- 

 ter he often sits on the stone wall and 

 studies the birds. When I visited this 

 ■delightful spot, where one may com- 

 mune with nature, one of the first 

 things that he said was, "I want to 



show you a remarkable boulder that 

 reminds me of the figure-of-four traps 

 of our boyhood. Nature has brought 

 this stone, weighing many tons, from 

 some distant place, and has propped 

 it up by a small boulder under one side, 

 as if 1 might pull it out by this hoe 



"WITH HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER HE OFTEN SITS ON THE STONE WALL AND STUDIES THE 



BIRDS." 



